- Lydia DePillis
- Reporter
Lydia DePillis is a reporter focusing on business policy, including lobbying, government contracting, and international trade, with a bit of urban affairs and infrastructure on the side. She was previously a staff writer at The New Republic and the Washington City Paper. Email her here and follow her on Twitter here.
How toilet paper explains the world
A country’s most popular hygiene product has a lot to do with its demographics.
‘American Idol’ and AT&T’s strange partnership
They helped each other rise, and fell victim to their own popularity.
People who work for these companies never make it
Fast-food and retail companies are the worst, but telecommunications and manufacturing do pretty well.
The housing bubble was worse for Hispanics
Zillow and the Urban League find even more ways in which the housing crisis broke down along racial lines.
- Seems that 1.3 million people losing unemployment insurance hurts economic confidence
- Retail in the age of Amazon: Scenes from an industry running scared
- Tired of prices rising on Orbitz? Now there’s a hedge.
- A watchdog grows up: The inside story of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau
- The best sentences we read today
- Chris Christie’s traffic study excuse didn’t even make sense
- The chicken market is so hot right now. Why can’t I trade on it?
- Congress is considering whether to allow Obama to finish two massive trade deals
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